diff --git a/scrapy/requirements.txt b/scrapy/requirements.txt
index 37ce1dc..89fe050 100644
--- a/scrapy/requirements.txt
+++ b/scrapy/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ cssselect==1.0.3
 hyperlink==18.0.0
 idna==2.7
 incremental==17.5.0
-lxml==4.2.3
+lxml==4.9.1
 parsel==1.5.0
 pyasn1==0.4.3
 pyasn1-modules==0.2.2